High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The words 'Merchant Ivory' have become a shorthand phrase for a very specific type of movie. The phrase conjures forth images of glacially paced, lovingly rendered period pieces, which involve a fair...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Here’s a new drinking game: every time during Howards End that you feel the urge to nod off, take a shot of beer with a low ABV. You’ll be more pissed (that’s drunk to us Yanks) before Anthony Hopkins shows up than you’d be from playing the Withnail & I game twice in a row. What a dreadful and stiff bore this is. But you get that. You go in understanding that, because it’s...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
ROME (Hollywood Reporter) - James Ivory's first solo venture after the 2005 death of his longtime producing partner Ismail Merchant reads like a loving salute to 49 years of Merchant Ivory filmmaking.
The Moment (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Waris Ahluwalia is the latest to explore the allure of India and its long history of sparking creativity with his book '' To India With Love '' (Assouline). India
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Issue 66 of Bright Lights Film Journal is now online. From the editor Keep watching the lights... Articles Roman Polanski: What's on Trial? By Karin Luisa Badt Looking at Charlie: Modern Times An Occasional Series on the Life and Work of Charlie Chaplin "Buck up! Never say die! We’ll get along!" By Alan Vanneman Past Sunset: Noir in the West "I don't need other people. I don't...
Ethics Newsline (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
“The Associated Press raised serious questions in its recent coverage of insurance companies and homeowners’ drywall claims. Some of these companies need to be shamed into doing the right thing.” – U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, talking to the AP last week about insurance companies’ efforts to cancel the policies of people whose [...]
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Florida's public insurance company reversed course this week and said it will cover a couple's Gulf Coast retirement home, after previously telling the homeowners their policy wouldn't be renewed because of the home's tainted Chinese drywall.
EphBlog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The Williamstown Film Festival begins today! Lots of interesting events in the line-up, but this one stands out for me: WFF returns to MASS MoCA on Friday night, October 30th with La Nave de Los Monstruos (The Ship of Monsters), a Mexican sci-fi musical in which Venusian women land on Earth in search of men. Ethel, [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Surprise Director's Choice screening returns to lineup
TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The Rome International Film Festival approached its halfway point boosted by the star power of Richard Gere and George Clooney, while the main competition received uneven reviews in the local press. The festival, which got under way Thursday, concludes Friday.
ABC News (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Owners say they now have houses they can't live in, sell or insure.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
London, Oct. 7: James Ivory stood in front of a Satyajit Ray poster at Christie's in London yesterday and witnessed what his friend Ismail Merchant would have called an auction room with a view.
Smartcine.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The 12th annual Savannah Film Festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design, will take place from Saturday, October 31-Saturday, November 7. Films to receive special gala screenings will include Jean-Marc Vallée’s “The Young Victoria”; Oren Moverman’s “The Messenger,” with Moverman and stars Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster in attendance; Grant...
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
The high-end video streaming service will immediately offer the largest on-demand catalog of classic films courtesy of a partnership with the Criterion Collection.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Screenings to include "Precious," "The Young Victoria" the North American Premiere of "The City of Your Final Destination" and more
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